isimSoftware Network Monitor Software Resource List
Runs as a Windows service
Monitors remotely without agents
Monitors multiple resource types
Allows customizable monitoring frequency
Notifies via Email or text message
Uses a simple licensing mechanism
Is inexpensive, yet powerful
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software is simple-to-use network monitoring software that can help you:
Monitor all your critical resources 24/7/365
Be notified of any issues that might affect the availability of your network and other IT resources
Potentially save you thousands of dollars in downtime and lost customers
Setup your resources quickly via import or auto-discovery
Save face with customers, managers, and employees by knowing about issues before they do
Save time by not installing agents on every computer to be monitored
Save time and avoid frustration by not dealing with complex licensing issues
Enjoy your day off, knowing that if anything goes wrong, you'll be notified immediately, directly on your cell phone
Feature Summary
General Features:
Runs as Windows service
This means your monitoring doesn't go down if your computer resets, such as it does for Windows Updates.
Notifications
Send notifications to administrators via Email or text message(SMS).
Desktop management application
A desktop application for management means a feature-rich, fast, GUI for editing your resources, seeing their current status, and their history.
Agentless Monitoring
Monitors all your resources without installing agents on every computer to be monitored. This saves you significant hours deploying agents to all your computers and upgrading them with new versions.
Skinned Interface
While just a nicety, isimSoftware Network Monitor Software fully supports multiple skins. Simply select the skin you like under Tools->General Settings->Display!
Simple Licensing
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software uses a simple key for licensing-- no license servers, etc. We feel that honest people will pay an honest price for a product that provides them value. Those that wish to steal isimSoftware Network Monitor Software by using crackz, serialz, or another form of warez, are likely not going to legitimately purchase our software anyways-- and we choose not to inconvenience the honest customers who do.
Resource Management:
Centralized Passwords
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software stores each credential/password only once, with each resource linking to whatever password is used. This is incredibly useful when passwords change-- instead of changing dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of resources, you just change the one password entry.
Resource Groups
Keep your resources organized neatly in groups that make sense to you-- such as physical locations, departments, etc.
Multi-select editing
isimSoftware, as of 5.0, now supports multi-select editing. This lets you easily change values on multiple resources at once. Simply select the resources you'd like to edit using shift+click or ctrl+click, and then right click->edit resources!
Resource Discovery
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software includes a Resource Discovery Wizard, which enables you to scan your network(via Active Directory) for hosts, and then scan those hosts for resources to monitor. The wizard lets you easily pick which computers on your network to probe and which services, disks, event logs, etc. to create resources for.
Display
View resources by group, resource type, and then further grouped by host/machine, resourcetype, status, or no grouping at all.
Data/History/Reporting:
Incident Reasons
Track the reasons for your downtime. With this management/reporting feature, you can easily tag a reason to each of your incidents.
SQLite database
isimSoftware, by default, uses a high performance local database, using the industry standard 'SQLite' database engine.
MSSQL database support
isimSoftware, as of 5.0, now supports using Microsoft SQL for its database. This can be useful for those with very large data needs, or simply those who want easier access to the database for their own reporting purposes.
Easy Backup and Restore
Using the new Backup and Restore Wizard, backing up your entire configuration and history data is very easy. Restoring is just as easy. Backup files are single file backups that can easily be moved around, sent via Email, etc.
External Logging
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software supports logging resource success/failure/error information to a text file or an ODBC data source.
Text File Import
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software supports importing your resources from text files, making it very easy to import your data and get started right away.
Resource History
View the history of any resource, very easily-- filtering by date/time. You can see incidents, each individual check, and each individual notification sent.
Reporting
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software provides a few reports to show you the number of incidents you have, the availability of your resources, etc. Reports can easily be run for groups or individual resources, and filtered by date/time.
Monitoring Capabilities
The core function of isimSoftware Network Monitor Software is to monitor your critical IT resources for a problem. isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can monitor many different types of resources, and more will be added as time goes on. isimSoftware Network Monitor Software will check your resources regularly, based on your configured frequency/schedule, and notify you via Email or txt message if something is wrong.
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software Resources Types:
Ping Monitoring
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can monitor devices via ICMP ping. This is the most basic network function test, and is very useful for determining if a computer or network device is available on the network.
Read More about Ping Monitoring
HTTP/Website Monitoring
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can monitor websites, hosted via both HTTP and HTTPS/SSL. Web site monitoring is a primary component of most IT monitoring strategies, particularly with more and more software being hosted via websites.
Read More about Website Monitoring
Windows Event Log Monitoring
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can monitor Windows event logs, both on local and remote computers. Servers and workstations can be monitored and event log entries can be easily filtered-- so you only see the important stuff. isimSoftware Network Monitor Software 5.0 also supports the new Windows 2008 R2 extended event log types('Applications and Services Logs').
Read More about Event Log Monitoring
Windows Service Monitoring
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can monitor Windows services, both on local and remote computers. Many critical software applications rely on a few core Windows services, so any comprehensive monitoring strategy will have at least a few Windows services being monitored.
Read More about Windows Service Monitoring
Disk Space Monitoring Software
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can monitor disk space on any Windows-based computer-- both local and remote. A server that runs out of disk space will likely not be running very long-- so monitoring disk space is critical for the uptime of your networked computer system.
Read More about Windows Disk Space Monitoring
Windows Process Monitoring
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can monitor Windows processes, running on local or remote computers. Some applications don't run as services, but must be running. It's also possible to inverse the check, and make sure certain applications are NOT running. You can also check to make sure that a specific number of processes of one name are running, that it's not using too much memory or CPU, etc.
Read More about Process Monitoring
Database Query Monitoring
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can monitor almost any database using the DB Query resource type. This resource type lets you monitor database connectivity, and even issue a query against the database-- either MSSQL or ODBC. You can evaluate the query results and query execution time to validate the health of your database server, or the content of current data.
Read More about Database Query Monitoring
FTP Monitoring
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can monitor your FTP Servers using the FTP resource type. This resource type lets you monitor FTP Servers to ensure they're responding to login requests, and that those login credentials are working.
Read More about FTP Monitoring
TCP Monitoring
Even if isimSoftware Network Monitor Software does not support your specific protocol, it can monitor any service that listens on a TCP Port. The TCP Socket resource type will check to make sure connections are being accepted by a specific host on a specific port, and optionally check to make sure the return text is appropriate for the protocol in question. This can be useful for monitoring SMTP, SSH, POP3, and more.
Read More about TCP Monitoring
Other Monitoring Features:
Agentless Monitoring
Monitors all your resources without installing agents on every computer to be monitored. This saves you significant hours deploying agents to all your computers and upgrading them with new versions.
Monitoring Frequency down to every second
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software supports polling resources as quickly as once every second.
Schedules
Define 1 or more monitoring schedules once, and apply it to as many resources as you'd like. You can edit your schedule and all resources linked to it will automatically change how frequently they monitor, notify, etc.
Monitoring Exceptions
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can be configured to not monitor during defined time frames, such as maintenance periods. This can be done easily on a recurring basis, or one-time basis. All exceptions can be easily viewed in calendar format.
Disable Monitoring
Easily disable any resource-- those that don't need monitoring temporarily, due to maintenance, recovery, or other.
Notifications
The critical part of detecting an error, is notifying the appropriate person. isimSoftware Network Monitor Software supports notifying system administrators via Email or text message(SMS). This can be done once specific thresholds are reached. Notifications can be sent to one or more Email addresses/phone numbers, by using a notification group. Notification groups can easily be edited later to add a new person to the list that gets notified, without editing each resource.
Notifications can be sent via:
Email
Get Email in your computer's inbox, your Android/iPhone EMail inbox while on the road, or anywhere with web access using your web mail.
Text Message
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can send notifications via text message, so you get notified instantly of any issues, even if you don't check your Email constantly.
Other Notification Features:
Notification Groups
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software lets you tag a notification group to each resource. This enables you to define multiple people that get notified when something goes wrong with that resource. You can then easily change notification groups without having to edit each and every resource.
Notification Thresholds
Define when notifications are sent(i.e. resource down more than 10 minutes), how often(if at all) notifications are re-sent, when(and if) to stop sending notifications, and send a notification when the resource recovers.
Custom Text
Customize the subject and body of any notifications sent via Email or text message.
Notification Limits
Setup global limits per Email or cell phone#, preventing overages or floods when many resources are offline at once.
Resource Dependencies
Any resource can be configured to depend on any other resource. This prevents polling that is guaranteed to fail, and can be used to prevent excessive notifications when a critical dependent resource is down-- you can receive notification for just the critical resource, instead of every resource that depends on it as well.
Reporting
isimSoftware Network Monitor Software provides reporting capabilities, so you can easily provide your managers, customers, or yourself with reports showing the availability and incident history of your resources. Reports can easily be run for individual resources, or entire groups of resources.
Reports in isimSoftware Network Monitor Software can easily be exported to multiple formats, including PDF, HTML, Excel, RTF, TXT, CSV, image file, and more. Export can be directly to Email, for ease of use. Printing is also possible, along with support for adding a watermark, if desired.
